We’re well past the turn of the new year now, settled firmly into conference play, and around-the-clock talk of bracketology and Joe Lunardi on ESPN 25 hours a day is just around the corner (in the rare case with that network, this is not a bad thing-there’s never enough of affable Joe in February and March). Here are some notes from around college basketball:
Tag: New Mexico
The Morning Dish – Monday, January 2, 2017
Sunday capped off a wacky first weekend of conference play, and could be the start of quite a couple of months. Plus a tough loss for an Atlantic 10 team that already lost another player.
2015-16 Mountain West Post-Mortem
The Mountain West had been so good for so long, and then a correction happened in 2015-16. Fortunately for the conference, there is reason to believe it is not the start of a downward trend.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 15, 2016
It turns out people do appreciate the National Invitation Tournament after all, far more than universally assumed. All it took was a little postseason saturation-the same thing that college football somehow seems immune to.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, February 28, 2016
We’re on the doorstep of March now, so there isn’t much that has been left uncovered in a season, but the question must be asked: is there a better secret in college basketball this year than Fresno State?
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 18, 2016
February can be over any day now. After all that happened on a deliciously eventful Wednesday night, we’re sufficiently primed and ready for March, and the best month on the sports calendar can’t get here soon enough.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 20, 2015
Come mid-March, December 19th may hold a special meaning to more than a few college basketball teams selected to the NCAA Tournament.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 17, 2015
For all the first month of the 2015-16 season has brought us-the beginnings of a terrific national player of the year race; upstarts like Monmouth and Arkansas-Little Rock seemingly coming from nowhere; coaches suddenly releasing the shackles on offenses-one area where the offerings have seemed a little thin is buzzer-beating finishes.
The Morning Dish – Friday, November 20, 2015
Though still a week from Thanksgiving Day, the holiday tournament season really began yesterday, and the results from the first two events were a good sampling of the first week of the 2015-16 season as a whole.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, November 19, 2015
An otherwise non-descript non-conference game in mid-November included one of the more tantalizing-and enjoyable-scenes we will see all of this college basketball season.